Safety Specialist
Location: US, NC, Belews Creek

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Job description:
This position will act as a representative of our client, and will spend most of their time performing field surveillance and observations. Primary responsibilities will be identifying hazards and risks associated with work tasks and providing assistance with associated controls, and addressing unsafe and undesirable behaviors related to health and safety. This position will work closely with the site Health &amp; Safety (H&amp;S) professional to address health and safety concerns.Other responsibilities and duties include:• Interfacing with site H&amp;S professional(s) to integrate and discuss H&amp;S issues and resolve related questions.• Interface with vendor safety representatives, site H&amp;S professionals and contractor manager(s) to correct deficiencies and resolve issues.• Know the respective H&amp;S contractual requirements to ensure full understanding of expectations.• Assisting work teams and vendors to resolve concerns and compliance deficiencies.• Providing and ensuring a safe work environment is maintained through the identification and correction of H&amp;S-related hazards and risks.• Performing daily / routine field observations and inspections to identify unsafe conditions and unsafe actions, and environmental issues. In addition, site inspections will environmental issues such as container labeling/control, potential refueling spills, hazardous materials, etc.• Attending and participating in outage meetings, site safety meetings, Pre-job briefings and any other meetings required by the Outage/ Project manager to communicate concerns and trends, as directed.• Performing incident trend analysis and develop safety/health improvement initiatives.• Administering and facilitating enforcement of safety initiatives.• Ensuring communications are delivered to outage work teams by following up with the outage/ project manager and appropriate personnel.• Providing input to the overall outage facilities plan in the areas of H&amp;S and Housekeeping.• Providing routine updates of H&amp;S issues to the site H&amp;S contacts and copy the Outage / Project Manager.• Participating in incident investigations as necessary.• Assisting with or provide training to contractors as needed for various health and safety topics including site orientation.

Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:• Knowledge of OSHA regulations and those regulations that are incorporated by reference in those regulations.• General knowledge of regulations and guidelines that include occupational safety, health (industrial hygiene) and environmental-related issues as they relate to new construction and betterment activities.• Effective communication skills both verbal and written including computer skills in MS Word and E-Mail tools.• Ability to work independently.• Past experience as a field health &amp; safety professional on construction projects and/ or plant outages/ turnarounds.Desired Qualifications:• Bi-lingual (English and Spanish)• Experience in power generation plants and the health and safety issues related to outages.• OSHA 500/501 Trainer.• Professional certification (i.e. CHST, OHST, CSP, CIH, QEP, CHMM, etc.).• Advanced emergency medical training (i.e. EMT, Medical Responder, etc.).• Industrial hygiene sampling and evaluation experience.

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